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Milne's excuse is inexperience. With more and more game time, aggression is the one thing that is possible to build on. Considine was really weak when he first came into the Dons side, and he worked hard at being aggressive in the challenge. Milne has the physique, he just needs to use it. This is his first season of top flight fitba, and Robinson is the right type of manager to work with on that side of things. It looked to me like Graham had prevented him jumping by challenging early. I suspect a more experienced defender would have gone down to make sure they got the foul. He'll learn. I'd say it's been a decent enough season for Milne overall. There's been a lot worse at the club, and I hope we try to continue his development. I think he could turn into a really good player.

Unusual for a Goodwin side to lose two late in the game.

Yes. Very wrong.

The sporting director model should include the ability for a manager to recommend players that he's either had experience of, or scouted, previously. It has to be a blend. The player should go through the recruitment team who do their research based on data and videos and additional scouting, and then he gets presented to the sporting director for final sign off. I guess they could apply weighting based on recommendation etc. For me, the sporting director needs to be the one that's on top of the overall balance of the squad and playing devil's advocate by asking how particular players fit into overall strategy and so on. He's there to make sure a robust process is in place and followed, ultimately refusing a signing who might be good, but would end in us having three similar players for example. There's no reason that a manager shouldn't be - in effect - signing players, there is every reason to prevent a manager from signing most or all of the players. It's about balance. Within that balance there must also be a commitment to not blocking the pathway for youth development.

I would say that if you split a circle into individual degrees, then mainstream political parties would all sit somewhere within a 3 degree segment. The difference between US democrats and Republicans is simply the velocity at which they enact their destruction of the planet. Hence why their donors comfortably flit between them. But, yes, the US Republican party is a detestable institution.

I'd like to see that one back. At the game it looked like Graham threw himself into Milne as he was about to jump, with no attempt to play the ball. Anyway, it wasn't a beautiful game today by any stretch. Robinson has clearly put the brakes on any attempt to play football, which is completely fine given the circumstances. No short balls from the keeper, very little through midfield and relying on the forwards with the midfield winning second balls. All fine at this stage, although I can't help but think that our last 4-5 managers haven't been given that freedom, with the insistence from within the club that they have to play "entertaining football" (which apparently translates to passing it until we lose possession). A bit of pragmatism was, and is, required. Thought Lobban really struggled today and probably shouldn't have started. A lot of okay performances, with nobody standing out. Lazetic wasn't absolutely terrible, but wasn't great and I'm surprised that Jensen and Olusanya didn't appear at half time. Geiger was okay too, but should have been off a bit earlier, as I don't like to see guys like Nilsen (or Shinnie) getting ten minutes as it often takes them that to get going. Really difficult to say much more than that we were okay. A draw a fair result, and a really good cross and header for their goal, albeit one from which we had plenty of opportunities to close down and deal with.

If you voted for any party in any recent election anywhere in the world you absolutely are a harm to others. Which is why only humans vote.

Aye, not a terrible lineup. Lazetic seems like he might be a Robinson type of player, and perhaps he fancies Olusanya off the bench too. 3-5-2 is basically our only option at the moment. Given that our wingers are absolutely pap, it's a no brainer. It's a very young back five though. Edit: hopefully Geiger has worked his arse off in his free week, and Robinson inspires him a little. He could either be close to being a good player or just pish, it's all down to work rate and fitness.

Agreed. Very much so.

Is it two? Is it a trick question? I genuinely don't know or care, which I expect is the position of most.

The interesting thing about the Robinson appointment is that he's not the type of guy you get in as a stop gap to inspire a poorly performing team to see out a season. He takes time to get his preferred team on the park and implement his ethic. I don't see a huge uptick in results between now and the end of the season, and I think it'll be beyond January by the time he's had a chance to rejuvenate the squad. Hopefully he'll be given the time to do so. I think there's a slight window to make this team harder to beat and squeeze some points out of them, but not much else. I assumed that's what Leven would do, but his selections have been scattergun at best. I hope Robinson just goes full pragmatism and makes us a stuffy side, in the hope that guys like Cameron, Nisbet and perhaps Armstrong (Keskinen at a real push) can sneak us goals at the top end. There isn't a lot of room for error with this squad though, one bad selection and we lose a game.

Not everything is black and white though - Paul Lawrie sits near me at the fitba.

I think that misunderstands golf. Most golfers are liberal types. The ones that enforce the dress code rules are the Nouveau riche. The guys that have just "made it" and are keen to throw their new found power around. Those that have already made it know that they're not at risk from the new lackey, he does their bidding for them. In other words, golf is just a mirror of the way everything is run (including football). Trump is just the vulgar face that isn't meant to show itself. That he might be drawing the failed system towards its logical conclusion a little bit quicker than the "professional" type is largely irrelevant, it was always heading that way and it was always going to do so with a very heavy hit. He won't last, but the material reality of the situation most certainly will. It's what happens when you design a system that doesn't align with physics.

I wasn't suggesting you would vote for Newsom or otherwise, just pointing out to those criticising (correctly) people for voting Trump, that it has to be couched to a large degree with the alternatives. I'm not fighting anyone's corner. I'm directly addressing you, and your rudeness as I see it. Responding to someone's perceived lack of empathy with what - ironically - appears to be bullying should be pointed out, which is what I was doing.

I think this is what it'll be too. Personally, I'd prefer Nilsen in midfield, with Geiger punted, and Morrison in the back three, where he wasn't quite the liability he was in a four. I'd probably have Jensen over Lobban too, as I think Lobban was poor against Dunfermline.

I don't think that's fair, or an accurate reading of what was written. Just rudeness, and lacking in empathy. And arrogant as fuck, of course, assuming that you know more about a person's own experience than they do. Even if you assume that a small part of the post was embellished, it would be weird to assume it wasn't in some way informed by the rest of the it. In my opinion, Trump is a vulgar child who has the cognitive abilities of his predecessor, and should be stood down because of that. Voting for Gavin Newsom (or Vance, or whoever) as your answer? Isn't that equally as deluded?

Your loyalty lies with the online message board, not some employer. When you get fired for calling tom English an ineloquent writer, this will be the first place you come.

Would have been nice just to get him on a two year deal so that there's less to pay off. The biggest problem that he'll face is the lack of time he'll get. A foreign "exciting" manager would have got more time. The squad is extremely poor, and once again we'll be looking at 10+ players to come in, with a view to six being starters. That's an extremely tall order for any manager, nevermind one that's coming in with a reputation for playing shite fitba, who will almost certainly be forced to play shite fitba regardless because of the atrocious squad he's inherited.

No we don't. Get him straight on the training pitch.

Every workplace needs one of those. If he gets the order right more than 70% of the time, then keep.

You have no idea what role Leven performs at the club normally, do you?

Aye, seems reasonable. It's a real shame that a separate entity hadn't been created to collect DNA money, that polled its funds and bought shares to collectively press the club in how it was being run. That'd have been a far better way to support the club in my opinion.

I think Doc was only really a case of calling in a favour from a guy known to the club to see us through until the end of the season. He'd have expected to last until then, but it won't have been guaranteed (he might get his short contract paid off, or he might offer to hang around for a couple of weeks to see the transition through. I'd expect Leven to return to his old role as you would in any other job, unless Robinson has someone he specifically wants for that position.

Welcome aboard Mr Robinson. He doesn't fit the strategy at all, but I think it's important to recognise that he was actually on our original shortlist back when we started looking, and was possibly the preference of at least one of those responsible for hiring, so it's not a completely wild appointment. It's a pragmatic appointment at least. We could easily have gone down the route of inexperienced or high risk foreigner for the sake of foreigner route that when weighed up would be much worse than Robinson. It's not like he doesn't tick any boxes at all. If Lutz is in any way a good sporting director, and not just an ego, then he'll definitely be able to work with Robinson. Just as he would have been able to work with the fourth or fifth foreigner on his list despite whatever flaws they brought. As long as we're clear about responsibilities from the outset, we should be fine. I actually think the worst thing would be if Lutz leaves. We've decided on a model that requires a sporting director. That means Lutz would have to be replaced. Once again we'd be getting a sporting director in after appointing a manager. Which would be taking shambolic to its peak.

That would be hilarious. Imagine the meltdown that would cause?